CA Providing Network Performance Management for NBC's Coverage of the Vancouver Winter Games

CA (Nasdaq: CA) today announced that it has been providing network performance management software to NBC during the network's coverage of the Vancouver Winter Games, February 12-28.

"The CA NetQoS Performance Center is critical to our operations as NBC delivers the highest quality video coverage of the Vancouver Winter Games across our network," said Craig Lau, NBC's vice president of information technology. "The true value of NetQoS is that it provides us dynamic insight into the performance of the network and a way to cost-effectively manage our bandwidth needs."

The CA NetQoS Performance Center is providing capabilities such as network traffic analysis and infrastructure response time monitoring as NBC delivers live HD video coverage from Vancouver to NBC headquarters in New York for editing and publication on its website and distribution to its broadcast affiliates.

"The CA NetQoS Performance Center ensures that critical voice, data and video traffic move efficiently through complex networks, such as the one NBC has set up to broadcast the Vancouver Winter Games," said Tom Kendra, executive vice president, Enterprise Products & Solutions, CA.